“It is my duty”. Pedro Sánchez has decided to ignore those who, from within and from outside the PSOE, have warned him that pivoting his electoral campaign on fear of the irruption of the right and the ultra-right will not be effective. In fact, it hasn’t worked for him in previous electoral contests. But, as he already did before the federal committee of the PSOE, the President of the Government has assured that it is his duty to alert the public, every day, against a possible alliance of the PP and Vox that could evict him from Moncloa after the general elections. next July 23. And he so he will.
This is how Sánchez started his electoral campaign this Thursday, in a rally at the Casa de Campo in Madrid before 1,400 supporters, and another 300 who stayed at the doors of the convention pavilion, according to figures from the organization. “The duty of the PSOE, and I as Secretary General and President of the Government, is to alert about the involution and setback represented by the agreements that Feijóo has signed with Abascal,” he warned. “I am going to do it from the first day to the last of the electoral campaign. Because it is a duty ”, Sánchez stressed.
The PSOE leader has started the campaign by announcing what, in his opinion, is a spoiler: “I am going to win the elections.” “And those who are only proposing to push our country back are going to lose,” he assured, insistently referring to the PP and Vox. “In twenty days we have gone back twenty years in the public debate. Feijóo and Abascal are the tunnel of time. Ten years of regression in the rights of workers and pensioners, twenty years in LGTBI rights, forty years in women’s rights, and eighty years in censorship of culture ”, he warned.
And to stop this conservative tsunami, Sánchez has asked for the confidence of a vast majority of Spaniards, even those who have never voted for the PSOE, but who now “don’t like the scary movie trailer for these pacts Feijóo with Abascal that we have seen in autonomous communities and in town halls in the last twenty days”. “We agreed to advance in social conquests, and in these last twenty days they have made an impudent exchange of votes for rights, of principles for armchairs,” he criticized. “This is serious, and citizens must be alerted,” he reiterated.
Sánchez has assured that, in these last four years of his mandate, he has managed to reverse what were the three main concerns of citizens when he arrived at Moncloa: unemployment, corruption and the “bankruptcy of the Constitution in Catalonia”. Today, he has highlighted, he continues to rise in economic growth and job creation in Spain. “Today there is an exemplary government and a clean president,” he pointed out. And today, finally, the first political force in Catalonia is the PSC of ex-minister Salvador Illa. In this sense, if he is re-elected, he has promised a Spain “in coexistence, with full employment and free of corruption.”
The alternative of 23-J, he has warned, is not “Sánchez or Spain”, as Alberto Núñez Feijóo points out. The dilemma, he has assured, is: “Or Sánchez, or Feijóo and Abascal.” But he has concluded his intervention by stating that “Spain is much better than the PP and Vox.” “And that is why we are going to win the elections,” he has settled.
